PAKISTAN'S UNEASY RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Heft 283, S. 269-275
ISSN: 0035-8533
THE AUTHOR LOOKS AT THE CURRENT TENSION OVER AFGHANISTAN IN THE LIGHT OF THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF RUSSO-PAKISTANI RELATIONS. HE TRACES THE HISTORY OF SOVIET-PAKISTAN RELATIONS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 1960S WHEN THE SINO-SOVIET CONFRONTATION SOFTENED ITS ATTITUDE TOWARDS PAKISTAN, THROUGH THE 1971 CRISIS IN BANGLADESH (EAST PAKISTAN), AND ON TO THE SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN.